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A woman accused of tearing her 6-year-old son's genitals then using superglue on the injury had been arrested before for assaulting an ex-husband.

Jennifer Marie Vargas, who turns 34 in December, spent a night in the Georgetown jail before posting bail for the misdemeanor assault in September 1999 on her then-husband, Filiberto Vargas Jr., the San Antonio Express-News confirmed.

Jennifer Vargas, whose maiden name is Hackney, married Filiberto Vargas in February 1998, and they had a daughter together. She was given deferred adjudication probation and ordered to pay an unspecified fine for the assault that occurred a little more than a year later, according to court records.

The couple later separated, he remarried, and she later had her son with another man, records show.

While there have been no previous documented child abuse incidents involving Jennifer Vargas, the assault on her then-husband and the alleged abuse on Sept. 27 of the boy prompted federal prosecutors to ask that she be detained without bond.

“She is a danger to the community and a flight risk,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Wannarka wrote in a motion seeking to keep Vargas locked up.

The Express-News first reported that the FBI arrested Jennifer Vargas on Wednesday after she admitted she was angry and yanked her son's genitals hard, tearing his scrotum, while at their home at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

Rather than seek medical attention for him, a federal affidavit said, she told agents she cleaned the boy's genitals with alcohol, put superglue on the injury until it stopped bleeding, put paper towels in his underwear and told him to go to bed.

The boy's father, an Army soldier, found the boy crying in his room when he returned to the family's home on post, and discovered his bloody, severe injury. He took him to San Antonio Military Medical Center, where the child had surgery.

The boy, who is not named, is now recovering in the care of his father and other relatives.

Vargas was appointed a federal public defender, and is scheduled for hearings Monday to determine if the FBI had probable cause to arrest her, and whether she can be released on bail.

She could face up to 10 years in a federal prison if convicted of assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction resulting in serious bodily injury.

Attempts to reach Filiberto Vargas and the boy's father were unsuccessful.